BORN ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – MAY 19

1987 – Jayne Wisener, who co-starred in “Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” and “Boogeyman 3.”
1980 – Drew Fuller, who has appeared in the films “Vampire Clan” and ” Voodoo Academy.”
1972 – Claudia Karvan, who appeared in the films “Daybreakers” and “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.”
1964 – Sean Whalen who appeared in “The People Under the Stairs,” “Idle Hands”, Rob Zombie’s “Halloween II”, “Caesar and Otto’s Paranormal Halloween”, “Constantine (TV Series)”, “Hatchet III” and more.
1948 – Grace Jones who starred in the films “Vamp” and “Conan the Destroyer,”
1946 – André Rousimmoff better known as the wrestler Andre the Giant, who appeared in the film “The Princess Bride” and as Bigfoot on the “Six Million Dollar Man” TV series.
1944 – Peter Mayhew who plays “Chewbacca” in the “Star Wars” series.
1922 – David McLean who appeared in the films “Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea,” “The Andromeda Strain” and “Kingdom of the Spiders.” He gained his greatest fame as the “Marlboro Man” back in the days when cigarette commercials were allowed on TV. Ironically, he died of lung cancer.
1920 – Renee Asherson who appeared in the films “Day the Earth Caught Fire,” “Theatre of Blood” and “The Others.”
1915 – Composer Irving Getz who did the music scores for the films “Monster On Campus,” “The Alligator People” and “The Incredible Shrinking Man.”
1906 – Bruce Bennett who appeared in the films “The Alligator People,” “The Cosmic Man” and “Before I Hang.”
1905 – James McDonald who was sound effects/voice over artist for Disney Studios for over 40 years. He was the voice of Mickey Mouse from 1946 to 1976.
1904 – Milton Parsons who appeared in the films “The Monster That Challenged the World,” “Hold That Ghost” and “The Haunted Palace.” He passed away on May 15, 1980.

DIED ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – MAY 19

2009 – Meng Hua Ho, who directed “Xing Xing Wang” a.k.a. “The Mighty Peking Man,” “Chu nu de you Huo” a.k.a. “Evil Black Magic” and “Gou hun jiang tou” a.k.a. Black Magic 2″ a.k.a. “Revenge of the Zombies,” passed away at the age of 86.
2008 – Donald Murphy, who starred in the film “Frankenstein’s Daughter” as ‘Dr. Oliver Frank(enstein), passed away at the age of 90.
2008 – Jack Duffy passed away at the age of 81. He was primarily a TV actor, with appearances in episodes of “Brimstone,” “Friday the 13th” and the 2000 “Robocop” mini-series.
1989 – Robert Webber, has appeared in “Something Is Out There (TV Mini-Series)”, “Don’t Go to Sleep”, “Darkroom (TV Series)”, “The Outer Limits (TV Series)”, “Thriller (TV Series)” and more. He passed away at the age of 64.
1864 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of the novel “House of the Seven Gables,” passed away at the age of 59.

FILMS RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – MAY 19

The Mad Magician 1954
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman 1958
The Deadly Bees 1967 filmed in 1966
The Vulture 1967 filmed in 1966
Witchfinder General aka The Conqueror Worm 1968
Horror of Snape Island 1972 a.k.a. Tower of Evil

The Premonition 1976
Food of the Gods II 1989
Fright Night II 1989
Frankenstein’s Bloody Nightmare 2006
See No Evil 2006
Beast 2007